FTP Problem, nothing shows up

[SchlauFuchs]

Hello,

I tried BC now for the second week. I have a FTP path against which I check my lokal files. This worked fine last week, but today if I want to do so I get a blank side for FTP, the files and directories there don't show up. I checked username/password, they are correct, and any standard FPT client software shows up the contents correctly. I removed all filters and selection options, just "show all". I've updated to the latest BC version, too, no change. If I name a sub directory inside the directory I would compare, this directory has the same problem. There is no error in the ftp log below. What can be cause for BC to hide all contents of a directory?

Regards,
Kai

FTP-Log:
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Stat> Connected.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 220 sye124h7.pcd.daimler-benz.com FTP server (Version 1.1.214.8 Fri Apr 20 07:27:42 GMT 2001) ready.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> USER pdmdef88
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 331 Password required for pdmdef88.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> PASS ********
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 230 User pdmdef88 logged in.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> TYPE I
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 200 Type set to I.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> SYST
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 215 UNIX Type: L8
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> PWD
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 257 "/net/sye128h7/home/pdmdef88" is current directory.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> FEAT
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 500 'FEAT': command not understood.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> CWD web
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 250 CWD command successful.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> PWD
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 257 "/net/sye128h7/home/pdmdef88/web" is current directory.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> TYPE A
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 200 Type set to A.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> PORT 53,124,115,59,5,88
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 200 PORT command successful.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Sent> LIST
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /usr/bin/ls.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Recv> 226 Transfer complete.
04.05.2004 11:04:47 Load Comparison: ftp://pdmdef88@53.124.115.128/web <->

[SchlauFuchs]

Hello, I've got further information.
I found that using IE for browsing the ftp server has trouble, too: All files and directories are wrong parsed, the time, somtimes the date information is interpreted as part of the filename.
So a file named "web" is displayed as "10:14 web" for example, or "Apr. 5, 10:14 web".
If I doubleclick such a file it naturally can't be accessed.
The only cause I can think of why this now happens is that I updated the OS with a bunch of MS Patches on friday. It is Win2K Pro german.
Is BC using the Windows or IE FTP API?
Maybe other users could verify this problem?

Thanks, Kai

[Craig]

Hi Kai,

We don't use IE's FTP engine, be we do parse FTP directory listings our selves. I can't say for certain, but it looks like the FTP server's directory listings are an unsupported format, probably due to the period and comma in the date.

Log into your FTP server using the Windows command line ftp.exe and run the "ls" or "ls -l" command to get a sample of the listing. Either post a copy of it here or send it in an email to support and I should be able to fix it pretty quickly. To make sure it's the right one, it should show the file size and timestamp too, not just the file names.